About Exida

Exida founded in 1999 by several of the world’s top reliability and safety experts. Exida is the world’s leading product certification and knowledge company specializing in automation system safety, alarm management, cybersecurity, and availability. With over 20 locations worldwide, exida’s global presence ensures there is always someone close by ready to help your team be successful.

Companies around the world turn to exida for help and guidance related to functional safety, alarm management, and control system cybersecurity standards implementation.

Exida is the choice of leading companies when it comes to implementing and achieving compliance to the global standards relating to the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards for functional safety for the process industry; IEC 62443 for industrial control system cybersecurity; ISA-18.2 for alarm management; ISO 26262 for functional safety of automotive, IEC 62061 and ISO 13849 for safety of machinery, and ANSI/RIA 1506 for robot safety.

Our team of industry leading engineers have over 500 years of combined knowledge, with extensive experience in Chemical, Petro-Chemical, Oil & Gas, Subsea, Metals and Mining, Pharmaceutical, Pulp & Paper, Power Utilities, Automotive, Robotics, and Machinery applications. This unique combination of technical depth and hands on experience enables exida to provide practical solutions to address your most difficult challenges.

Adding Value:

Our clients need to cost-effectively implement the requirements of the safety and security standards. exida enables this by creating unparalleled engineering tools that reduce the time and cost of compliance, delivering coaching and training to rapidly develop a knowledge base within the clients organization, offering a full range of lifecycle services to supplement in-house resources, and providing independent assessments to ensure compliance and traceability.

 

Exida Certificates

IEC 61511: Functional Safety Analysis, Design, & Operation (4 days)

IEC 61511: Functional Safety Analysis, Design, and Operation

Feb. 07 – Feb. 10, 2025
May 23 – May 26, 2025
Sep. 05 – Sep. 08, 2025

Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) Using HAZOP (2 days)

Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) Using HAZOP

Feb. 14 – Feb. 15, 2025
May 30 – May 31, 2025
Sep. 12 – Sep. 13, 2025

PHA Leader Customized for Middle East (5 days)

PHA Leader (Hazop + Coaching) Customized for Middle East

Feb. 14 – Feb. 18, 2025
May 30 – Jun. 03, 2025
Sep. 12 – Sep. 16, 2025

Fundamentals of Alarm Management for the Practitioner: How to Apply ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 (2 days)

Fundamentals of Alarm Management for the Practitioner: How to Apply ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682

Mar. 14 – Mar. 15, 2025
Jul. 04 – Jul. 05, 2025
Nov. 07 – Nov. 08, 2025

Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS) IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Lifecycle (4 days)

Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS) IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Lifecycle

Mar. 16 – Mar. 19, 2025
Jul. 06 – Jul. 09, 2025
Nov. 09 – Nov. 12, 2025

Instructor

Mr.Greg Chantler, CFSE has over 25 years of professional experience. For the past 18 years he has been involved in consulting and engineering design of safety related systems within the process industry. This consulting work has led to him being an expert in all aspects of the functional safety standards, including HAZOP and SIL Selection facilitation, SRS development, SIL Verification calculations and development of operations and maintenance procedures. He is a current CFSE and TUV Rheinland FS Expert.